Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Public Expenditure
(asked on 28th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will detail the losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for her departmental group as defined by section A4.10.7 in HM Treasury's Managing Public Money for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
The losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for the departmental group for the years 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 as already held on the record of losses for the public sector organisations within the departmental group, in accordance with Managing Public Money (Annex A4.10.7), or as otherwise held for the purposes of special payment disclosures, are set out below. These disclosures are consistent with the organisations' obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018.
Losses and special payments above £50,000 and less than £300,000 for financial years April 2018-March 2021 are as follows:
Year | DFID | FCO | FCDO |
2018-19 | |||
Four store losses related to commodities of £65,540, £299,037, £104,919, £197,686. | Waved claim £182,000 relating to Chevening Scholarships. | ||
Three special payments to subcontractors after supplier entered administration of £137,090, £290,000, £139,882. | |||
2019-20 | |||
Two fruitless payments relating to expired drugs, and destruction of medicine unable to be delivered of £255,632 and £57,137. | |||
One special payment £85,142 outside contract terms. | |||
2020-21 | |||
One waived claim £56,534 following overpayment of supplier. | |||
Two special payments (1) for hardship payments to Chevening scholars of £72,384; and (2) an extra contractual payment in response to Covid-19 of £250,883. |
Financial year 2020-21 was the first year where FCO and DFID were combined into one entity. Results for 2018-19 and 2019-20 split disclosures between the 2 former departments.